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The Court of Appeal has for the first time considered the meaning and effect of the 'serious harm' test under s.1 of the Defamation Act 2013. The Court of Appeal's judgment in Lachaux v AOL & Ors [2017] EWCA Civ 1334 has held that the Claimant need only demonstrate that the alleged defamatory publication connote a "tendency" to cause serious harm to the Claimant's reputation, rather than it being more likely than not that the publication would cause serious harm.

One of Europe's largest hedge fund managers, Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP (BHAM), has been granted an interim injunction against international news agency Reuters which threatened to publish highly confidential information that had been provided by BHAM to potential investors.